From the first days of the full-scale invasion, teacher Iryna Malynska joined a powerful volunteer movement in the Ruzhyn community. First, she organised a food drive for IDPs staying in their village of Verkhivnia. Then she directed all her efforts to help the frontline. ‘We wove nets for the military, collected everything we could,’ she says.

When Iryna's husband went to the front as a volunteer, the challenges increased! His unit needed camouflage suits. At first, Iryna and other volunteers used ordinary bedsheets to make them. But later they found special fabrics that were waterproof. They began to make protective suits that the soldiers could wear over their clothes to stay dry in difficult weather conditions. Later, Iryna's friends organised a fundraiser abroad. They bought electric sewing machines, which made their work much easier. Moreover, now the volunteer tailors are also consulting other people!